Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
19812
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
14/05/1998  
Date of Amendment
14/05/1998  
Name of Property
Gates and Gatepiers at SE corner of Plas Brondanw Gardens including Garden Wall to NE.  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Gwynedd  
Community
Llanfrothen  
Town
 
Locality
Plas Brondanw  
Easting
261580  
Northing
342202  
Street Side
 
Location
Located at the southern corner of Plas Brondanw Gardens adjacent to the lane, the associated section of garden wall terminating at the Aedicular Triple Arch.  

Description


Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces  
Period
 

History
Garden feature built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, architect and owner of the Brondanw estate. The gardens were laid out to his designs in various stages between his inheritance of the estate in 1908 and his death in 1978. He created here one of Wales' most impressive gardens distinctive for its interlinked terraces, compartments and axial vistas that are aligned on the surrounding mountains of Moel Hebog, Moelwyn, Cnicht and Snowdon.  

Exterior
Tall, elegant gate-piers of rough-dressed local stone. Adjoining sections of wall slope up to the piers on both sides and also down to a frontal masonry projection at L. Plain, rivetted iron gates with shaped top; moulded capping with cement-stone urn finials. The wall returns immediately beyond the R gate-pier and continues for approximately 30m to the NW where it joins the aedicule; plain wooden gate to the SW of this.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as an integral feature of the nationally important gardens laid out at Plas Brondanw by Clough Williams-Ellis.  

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